How to search for posts containing images?
Is there a way to search for posts containing images?I did not find a way, but it would be practical to have some ...
View ArticleFAQ: Best Practices for Searching CV
Over the course of almost nine years, we have amassed a body of good answers to many clearly stated questions: one of our site's principal goals. To be useful, though, these answers have to be...
View ArticleHow much has the traffic of CV fallen over the past one and half years?
Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% 35% of its traffic (Update: Around 15% of the observed loss seems to be related to the recategorization of the Google Analytics...
View ArticleBounty community wiki?
I want to get an answer to our new quantile regression community wiki that addresses a particular aspect of quantile regression that is not being addressed in the current answers, so I thought I’d...
View ArticleIs CV's 'Reopen votes' review queue working right now?
A few minutes ago I had to skip the two reopen votes visible in my review queue because I couldn't complete any of them due to a strange error of the kindAn error occurred bla bla bla...I also see that...
View ArticleWhat to do with the [sequence-analysis] tag?
I find this tag is often being misused, at least according to it's excerpt, the original Meta thread and also the tag wiki.Currently, sequence-analysis reads:[Excerpt] Analysis of a DNA, RNA, or...
View ArticleIs it OK to share codes in the answers
A short while ago my first question was closed because it was about programming (well, it wasn't my intent but I understand why, so I deleted the question). Now, I wonder if it is OK sharing codes in...
View ArticleHow best to leave comments on questions and answers in the review queue?
I notice that regular Review Queue patrollers often leave a stock comment, particularly on "first posts" and "low quality posts". There are many issues that arise time and again, for example an answer...
View ArticleModerator using *nuclear* option
My question Clustering vectors of unequal size was unilaterally closed by a moderator less than an hour after it was published. While the question might require some improvement or might be even too...
View ArticleSuspension and length of suspension of irrespective of user merits?
I stumbled upon a user with a record of popular and interesting questions to have been suspended because of low-quality posts for a year.I find this drastic, in particular in view of the user's...
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Confusion about reopen vote with no actual edits shown
I sometimes see a reopen vote in the queue that looks something like this:Here I see that the question has been edited, which is why I assume it is now in the reopen queue. But I don't see anything...
View ArticleDo we have a canonical Q&A for deriving KL divergence for two Gaussians?
The question of deriving the KL divergence of two Gaussians appears frequently. It arises especially often in the context of variational auto-encoders, because the essential paper on the topic by...
View ArticleWhat are some "best practices" for editing to improve a post?
We already have another excellent question on CV.SE setting out editing dos and don'ts, but that mostly focuses on the limitations that apply to editing other people's posts, rather than the substance...
View ArticleWhat's the difference between needs more details or clarity vs. needs more...
I often get locked into comment stalemates trying to get specific conditions on open-ended questions so that there is a clear answer or two to address the question. The problem arises when posters fail...
View ArticleDo we want to volunteer for the alpha test on lowering rep requirements for...
SO is looking for some sites where they would experimentally lower the rep requirement for voting to 1.Do we want to volunteer?I would suggest up- and downvotes on this question to stand for "yes" and...
View ArticleWhat is the proper way to delete your own answer?
There are times when I answer here that, upon further reflection, its clear that I'm not the best person to answer the question (either because of lack of expertise or just confusion about the...
View ArticleFeedback on question: E-commerce - Does higher delivery time lead to lower...
I've recently asked a question E-commerce - Does higher delivery time lead to lower sales?. In this question I ask for help on finding appropriate statistical methods on a problem that I am facing. My...
View ArticleHow best to leave comments on questions and answers in the review queue?
I notice that regular Review Queue patrollers often leave a stock comment, particularly on "first posts" and "low quality posts". There are many issues that arise time and again, for example an answer...
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Why were my "no longer needed" comment flags declined?
Today, I needed to search about fitting discrete distributions on my mobile device; I ended up in the thread How to fit a discrete distribution to count data?, which was indeed quite relevant.Under the...
View ArticleWhat's the difference between "needs more details or clarity" vs. "needs more...
I often get locked into comment stalemates trying to get specific conditions on open-ended questions so that there is a clear answer or two to address the question. The problem arises when posters fail...
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